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DEVICE FOR WELDING PLOWSHARES AND LANDSIDES.

No. 355,110. Pat-entedQeo.28, 1886.

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LEWIS A. WEYBURN, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE L. A. VVEY- BURN COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

DEVICE FOR WELDING PLOWSI IARES AND LANDSIDES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,110, dated December 28, 1886.

Application filed May 2'2, 1886. Serial No. 202,948. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIs A. WEYBURN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Short Landside-Holders for Flows; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide for the use of jobbing blacksmiths and plowrepairing mechanics a cheap, convenient, and laborsaving device for holding the heated short landside of a plow in proper position while a plowshare is being welded thereto.

This invention consists in so constructing a short landside-holder that it may be readily adapted to landsides of different sizes, and quickly attached to and detached from a blacksmiths anvil.

This invention possesses other and further novelties and advantages, hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

The invention may be more fully understood by reference to the accompanying drawings,in whicl1 Figure 1 is an isometrical view of my invention. Fig. 2 is an isometric view of a short landside. Fig. 3 is an isometrical view of an anvil, the landside-holder, a short landside, and a plowshare, all in proper position for welding the short landside and plowshare together.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

A represents an anvil having a hardy-hole, A, through the breech thereof.

B represents the base of the landside-holder, widened at B to render it more stable.

B represents upward-projecting sides of the landside-holder, preferably continuous with 4 5 the base B, and having their upper surfaces,B

inclined or sloped, as shown. The inner faces,

B, of the sides B of the landside-holder are perpendicular and converge uniformly from the end B to the heel B 0 represents pin-holes through the sides B" of the holder.

0 represents a heel-pin, which serves the double office of adapting the holder to landsides of different lengths and thicknesses, and of preventing the heel O of a landside from being driven so far back into theholder by the operation of welding, that the upper surface, 0 ofthe landside would fall below the upper surfaces, B of the sides of the holder.

D D represent, respectively, a bolt and nut 6 for securing the landside holder to an anvil.

1) represents a washer having the upper surface thereof inclined, thereby adapting it to fit the counterpart incline of the portion of the anvil aboutthe lower end of the hardy- 6 hole A.

E represents a plowshare in proper position to be welded to the short landside. v

In order to use thelandside-holder most expeditiously and advantageously, bolt it to an 0 anvil in the position shown in Fig. 3, place the short landside, Fig. 2, into the holder,leaving the upper surface, Gfl thereof projecting as far above the holder as desired, insert the heel-pin G into the pin-hole nearest the heel of the landside, remove thelandside, and heat a point, F, thereof and a point, F, of the plowshare E to a weldingheat, return the landside to its former position in the holder, weld the points F F of the landside and plowshare together, using an ordinary blacksmiths welding-hammer, forming what is called a sticking weld, then return both the short landside and plowshare to the forge to be reheated, the plowshare being stuck fast at the points F F to the short landside at the angle desired by means of the sticking-weld above referred to. After reheating the share and landside return them to their original welding position, and continue the operation of weldo :ing with a hammer, as before, reheating as oocasion requires, until the parts are properly united.

In addition to saving the time and labor of one man, this device saves from one to two 5 heats for every plowshare and landside that are welded together.

I claim- 1. In a short landside-holder, "a base, B, provided with upwardly-projecting sides 13%, for holding a short landside in proper position while a plowshare is being welded to said 5 landside, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified. i

2. A short landside-holder consisting of a base and sides B," the latter being provided with pin-holes O, and having their upper sur- 10 faces inclined toward the end B of the landside-holder and furnished with a heel-pin, 0, bolt D, nut D, and washer D, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I affix my signature in the presr ence of two witnesses.

LEWIS A. WEYBURN.

Witnesses:

L. L. MoRRIsoN, M. DORR. 

